Aside from the camps, there were low-end brothels which provided services for the toiling masses. These small brothels, which were called “Stone Balconies” or “Cannon Camps”, aimed only at speediness. Hence, the service provided was of poor quality, and the process involved no ingeniousness or etiquette.
Let me tell you something, located on the ground floor of the big camp were the shop front, the kitchen and the “Room of the Gods” for worshipping deities. Lagerstroemia Star or Guan Di were the most popular targets of devotion. From the 2nd floor up to the rear half of the 4th floor were the bedrooms of the prostitutes, two of whom would usually share a room. Inside the room, there were basically a bed made of iron, a chest of drawers with four drawers, a table and several chairs. Those popular prostitutes could have a room on their own, or even have two rooms restructuring into one big room. They devoted much ingeniousness to decorating their room to compete for clients. On the 4th Floor, there was the “Camp Hall” for serving banquets, especially for the clients’ “Decorating the Camp Hall for Banquets-for-all”.
The income of the big camps was mainly from “Decorating the Camp Hall for Banquets-for-all”. If a client fell for a particular prostitute, in order to please the bawd and become the “bedroom guest” of his adored prostitute for extreme sensuous pleasure, he would often have to entertain all prostitutes of the camp with banquets served at the brothel.
